The Whitebrook Restaurant with Rooms, Wales’ most sustainable Michelin-starred restaurant, has retained its Green Star for the second year running and its Michelin Red Star for the 11th year.

Sustainability has been at the core of chef Chris Harrod’s ethos since he launched his award-winning restaurant in 2013, securing a Michelin star within 11 months.

Yesterday, The Whitebrook retained the Green Michelin Star it was awarded last year (one of six new additions in Great Britain and Ireland for 2024), becoming the only restaurant in Wales to hold both a Michelin and Green Michelin star.

In the words of the Michelin Guide, The Whitebrook is among a handful of restaurants in the UK that: “hold themselves accountable for both their ethical and environmental standards… These restaurants offer dining experiences that combine culinary excellence with outstanding eco-friendly commitments and are a source of inspiration both for keen foodies and the hospitality industry as a whole.”

According to The Good Food Guide, the Whitebrook Restaurant with Rooms is also one of the UK’s best-value high-calibre restaurants. It also appears in Harden’s Top 100 UK Restaurants and has a place in La Liste’s 1000 best restaurants in the world.

Working closely with artisan growers and producers, foraging local hedgerows, estuaries and woodlands, cultivating his much-loved kitchen garden and orchard and careful consideration for the environment at every step of the way has always been a top priority for Chris, who runs The Whitebrook with his wife Kirsty, with the help of Kirsty’s mother.

This commitment is made possible by the property’s unique surroundings in the Wye Valley—a blissfully peaceful location that also allows the family to offer an unrivalled gastronomic break to switch off and recharge.

The commitment to sustainability doesn’t end in the restaurant. A filtration system allows Chris and the team to stock the rooms plentifully with bottled water.

Bathroom products are handmade with natural, organic ingredients and minimal, environmentally friendly packaging, and they are supplied by Serious Tissues, which produces the UK’s first carbon-neutral toilet paper.

Single-use plastic has no place at The Whitebrook, from cling film to cleaning products used by housekeeping, and electricity is from a 100% renewable source.

When you stay at The Whitebrook, a tasting breakfast is included, featuring responsibly sourced, hyper-local ingredients. Dishes include Baked cultured yoghurt, blackcurrant compote, Whitebrook granola, Raspberry and meadowsweet muffin with preserves, pine-cured salmon, sour cream, sourdough crumpet, Trealy Farm dry-cured back and streaky bacon, Huntsham Farm middle white pork sausage, local black pudding, and poached free-range egg.

The restaurant’s address is Whitebrook, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, NP25 4TX. More information is available at thewhitebrook.co.uk.